Final thoughts on our 2023 grand tour of Europe…..

 Over the past 65 days travelling, we have:

- Taken  3 cruises - a transpacific cruise, becoming trusty “Shellbacks” when we crossed the equator! 

- a transatlantic and a north Croatian cruise 

- 10 flights totalling 41 hrs in the air

- Spent 44 hrs sitting in airports

- Did 1 overnight ferry (think fawlty towers on the water!) between countries 

-Discovered a new travel concept called bla bla car which made us some new friends between Bologna and Lucca

- Travelled through 12 countries 

- Visited Grand central station in NYC, 

- St Paul De Vence in Nice, 

- The Cinque Terre, 

- Revisited the Colosseum in Roma

- The Acropolis/Parthenon in Athens, 

- The Diocletian Palace in Split Croatia, 

- The Wave Sea Organ in Zadar, 

- The famous Blue Cave Croatia,

- Lucca the walled Italian city, 

- San Gimignano

- The white town of Volterra  ……all in Tuscany ( The grapes even tasted purple!) 

-The Merlion in Singapore

- Drank approx 23 pints

-23 Aperol and lemon soda’s

- 100 cocktails

- 2 litres of jagermeister

- 1 bottle of ouzo

-1 bottle of lemoncello

-1 bottle of aperol

(Sounding like alcoholics here! But spread out over 2 months between us😀)

All the drinking was offset with walking approximately 780,000 steps! This equates to 594 km!

- The only negatives were the smoking e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e.  in France, Italy, Croatia. even if you have just sat down to start eating, they will light up🤢

-The cost of everything were very expensive compared to pre-Covid

But all in all a wonderful and most memorable trip.✈️🚗🛫🛬🚌🗽🚊🚕🧳🚞🚢⛰️🛳️👙🤿🍺🍻🍷🍹🥂🍾🍸☀️🌦️🥵🕶️🌻🌆😍😘